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Chapter 1150 Professor (22)
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Schiller also looked up, glancing around the ceiling of the room, then his gaze fell on Harley's face, and he blinked and said, "You mean this house is yours? You have a building in the most prosperous business district of Gotham???"
Harley shook her head slightly, standing in place, stepping back a step, stepping out of the threshold, and waving to Schiller. Schiller was somewhat puzzled, but he followed and took two steps forward, also stepping out of the threshold.
Harley took a step to the left, pointing to the road on the left and said, "This whole street is mine!"
Schiller slowly widened his eyes, looking down at Harley's face, saying somewhat incredulously, "Gordon said you inherited an estate, but don't tell me you inherited such a large estate?!"
Harley snorted and said, "My parents didn't have that kind of ability, they were just small business owners, and they only left me a few rather remote shops and a sum of money barely enough for a middle-class life."
"It's just that I had no interest in doing business, so I sold those few shops, and with that money, I bought a nice apartment in the slums, but as soon as I bought it for two months, a rich person came and renovated the place... Correct, that place is called Living Hell."
"When they said they were going to renovate it, I was the one who took the lead in responding, to set an example for the others, and they compensated me with a better located building based on the actual area used."
"But not long after, the gangs started frantically building cold storage, the place where my building was located seemed to be particularly suitable for building cold storage, and there were a lot of gangs who wanted to get rid of me, but later the Falcone Family stepped in and made me an example, buying that piece of land for five times the price."
"I said I didn't want cash, they gave me three buildings in a better location, but then the Wayne Group's second phase of construction and renovation project included my house, and I was moved to a storefront on a street in the East District."
"Later, there was a rich person from out of town, what was his name... Great King? He said the location of my street was of strategic importance, and he bought it for about five or six times the price, so I added some money and bought a street in the city center..."
Schiller stared wide-eyed at Harley, and Harley looked up at him with a forced smile and said, "Envious, aren't you, poor guy?"
"Who says I'm unlucky?" Schiller reached out and vigorously rubbed Harley's head, stopping him from walking into the store, and said, "Okay, landlady, I'll pay the rent on time, you'd better go back to the hospital to work."
Harley sighed and stood there, staring into Schiller's eyes and saying, "Do you think I'm worried about the rent? Isn't what I have to worry about whether this house can survive until tomorrow?"
"No, I have to stay here and watch over it." Harley stepped forward, saying as he walked, "To prevent explosions, alien invasions, or Batman-like disasters from coming..."
Schiller was just about to speak when Harley held up two fingers and said, "Now you have two choices, either I stay here and watch over my house, or if this house is damaged in any way, you'll have to compensate me ten times over..."
Schiller looked at Harley with some helplessness. To be honest, the current Harley Quinn is completely like a child, not at all the crazy Joker girl, but actually quite normal.
Some might say that at just a teenager, she has already killed so many people, and even had the idea of becoming a serial killer, and has been mixed in with that group of lunatics, isn't that crazy enough?
But this is Gotham, the standard of normal here is different from other places, there are hardly any children here who go to school in an orderly manner, most of them are hanging out on the streets and in gangs, and the street life at the bottom is a matter of life and death, and the children in their hands have already taken many lives.
Harley, who kills to protect her own property, and not actively kill, but kill one by one, not causing large-scale explosions or carnage, but precisely seeking revenge, without involving innocent people, is practically a textbook example of Gotham's self-defense.
This is also why Gordon very much hopes that Harley can get back on the right track, having seen all kinds of crazy and irrational lunatics in Gotham, in Harley's class, she can even be called a well-behaved girl.
Thinking about this, Schiller felt more and more that Harley couldn't stay here, after all, there was a group of serial killers watching him, and if a few of them corrupted Harley and turned her into the Joker girl again, wouldn't that be misleading the youth?
Schiller didn't think that the life of the Joker girl would be better than Harley's current life. The current Harley Quinn has a large fortune, a brilliant mind, a healthy body, and already emerging beauty. She has a great future, why be a lunatic?
Schiller bent down, putting one hand on Harley's shoulder, looking into her eyes and saying, "I promise I'll do my best not to damage your house, and if I do, I'll repair it or compensate you at cost, so you can't stay here..."
Harley took a step back and then said, "You're not the Professor."
Schiller was slightly taken aback, but Harley looked intently into Schiller's eyes and said, "You have multiple personalities, don't you?"
"The previous paper was not written by you." Harley's tone was very certain: "The person who attracted me was not you, you are not my kind, you are completely different from him..."
Schiller tilted his head slightly, feeling somewhat surprised. Harley was the first person to realize he had Dissociative Identity Disorder without being told by someone else, and they had only met twice.
"From the Professor's article, I could see what kind of person he was, serious, cold, with an obsession with mental hygiene, and more importantly, in the part he discussed, I could see that he was quite a proud person."
Schiller's pupils suddenly contracted, because he suddenly thought of something, that for a very long time, he had also been Joker.
Based on the timeline, JokerSchiller should have been born earlier than JokerJack, because when Schiller encountered Bruce, Bruce was not yet Batman, but Schiller had already been chosen by him.
The person chosen by Batman naturally becomes the Joker, so Schiller became the Joker.
But when Batman was truly born, a Joker would also be born, so Jack became the Joker.
This resulted in the simultaneous existence of two Jokers in this Gotham City space.
And precisely because the two Jokers shared the Joker's responsibilities, it led to the fact that the strength of the two Jokers was not high.
The Joker persona in the SchillerThought Tower and JokerJack are not actually very cruel, much milder than some Jokers in other spaces, perhaps because the two souls shared this role.
Unfortunately, every Joker will attract a Joker woman, just like the BatmanJoker aggregation law.
Every crazy Joker, with their manic and chaotic souls, will attract a woman and drag her into the crazy abyss.
And since Schiller was the first Joker to appear, the one who should have become the JokerfemaleHarley Quinn naturally found Schiller first.
But fortunately, because Schiller and Harley have a large age gap, Harley was still a child when Schiller was the Joker, and now that Harley has reached the age to take the stage, Schiller's Joker soul has already merged with Pride and is no longer an independent Joker.
Schiller speculates that this may be the reason why the Harley Quinn in front of him still seems relatively sane.
Since Harley was attracted by JokerSchiller, her descent into madness may be different from the comics.
And Harley just mentioned that she had read the thesis written by PrideSchiller, this thesis is very likely the opportunity for the Joker woman to fall into madness.
If Pride and Joker had not merged, it is very likely that Harley would have been infected with madness by reading this thesis and become the crazy Joker woman.
However, this is the latest thesis written by PrideSchiller, at which time his fusion with Joker had already begun.
Therefore, this thesis did not have such a big impact on Harley, so the Harley that appears in front of Schiller is still a relatively normal young girl, not a crazy woman with messy hair and a cut mouth.
And Harley's subsequent words further confirm Schiller's conjecture, as she reveals an extremely fanatical expression and says in a rapid pace:
"This article is a groundbreaking work! It is a monumental masterpiece that explores the relationship between psychology and criminology! You have no idea, I've read it so many times! I'm deeply fascinated by the ideas in it, and no matter what the cost, I must meet the author!"
Harley's eye contact begins to become a bit dreamy, as if she has fallen into some imagination, and she says:
"Surely no one can understand him like I can, I have amazing insights into his views, I must let him know that the crazy ideas swirling in my mind will be realized in a most magnificent way, that will be the greatest thing I've ever done..."
"Calm down, Harley." Schiller took a deep breath and kept soothing Harley's overly excited emotions, then he said, "Do you still feel that way? Eager and impatient to meet the author, even willing to pay any price?"
After a momentary pause, Harley's expression stiffened a bit, she pouted her lower lip and revealed a very complex expression, then said, "...I don't know."
"I feel very divided, I know he is Schiller Rodriguez, I know I can find him and realize the crazy fantasies in my mind, but I also feel it's meaningless, I don't know what I'm doing..."
Schiller heaved a sigh of relief, it seems his conjecture was correct, Schiller's fusion with Joker disrupted the Joker woman's descent into madness, causing her to go crazy, but not completely.
At this point, Harley has grabbed her hair, screaming in disbelief, "What am I doing? Why did I come here?! No, wait, let me see him...let me see him!!"
Schiller held Harley's shoulders and looked into her eyes until she gradually calmed down, then he said, "Okay, you can stay here and watch your house, but you have to take on the task of organizing the books, and you also need to undergo long-term and regular mental check-ups..."
"I'm not crazy! Why do I have to..." Seeing Schiller's disapproving gaze, Harley pursed her lips, sighed, and then said:
"Okay, but you have to promise that if he comes back, you'll let me see him right away..."
"Don't worry..."
After seeing the cheerful Harley walk into the room, Schiller quietly added:
"But by then, you might not want to see him anymore."
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